Isabel Turban
Untitled, 2018
Mixed media on canvas
15h x 11w in
 
 

 

Isabel Turban
Untitled, 2018
Mixed media on paper
15h x 11w in
 

 

Isabel Turban
Untitled, 2018
Mixed media on paper
15h x 11w in
 

 

Isabel Turban
Untitled, 2018
Mixed media on paper
15h x 11w in
 
Isabel Turban
Nature of Reality, 2018
Graphite on paper
30h x 22w in
 

 

Isabel Turban
Lobo, 2018
Mixed Media on canvas
54h x 46w in
 

 

Isabel Turban
Untitled, 2018
Mixed media on canvas
54h x 48w in
 

 

Isabel Turban
Untitled, 2017
Mixed media on paper
36h x 30w in
 

 

Isabel Turban
Where is Love Going?, 2017
Mixed media on canvas
30h x 24w in
 

 

Isabel Turban
Vaiven, 2018
Mixed media on canvas
30h x 24w in
 

 

 

Isabel Turban
Chaotic Nature Within, 2018
Mixed media on canvas
44h x 34w in
 
Vicky Barranguet
Endless Dialogue III, 2017
Watercolor on paper
12h x 9w in
 
Vicky Barranguet
Endless Dialogue II, 2018
Watercolor on paper
12h x 9w in
 
Vicky Barranguet
Endless Dialogue II, 2018
Watercolor on paper
12h x 9w in
Vicky Barranguet
Calmer Expectations II, 2018
Watercolor on paper
30h x 22w in
Vicky Barranguet
Calmer Expectations II, 2018
Watercolor on paper
30h x 22w in
Vicky Barranguet
Around the Illusion, 2018
Watercolor on paper
14h x 11w in
Vicky Barranguet
Around the Illusion, 2018
Watercolor on paper
14h x 11w in
Vicky Barranguet
Love by the Yard, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
32h x 80w in

 

Vicky Barranguet
Back to Nature, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
32h x 66w in
Vicky Barranguet
Love Series Blue, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
32h x 66w in

 

Vicky Barranguet
Nothing Grows in a Straight Line, 2018
Acrylic on canvas
32h x 48w in

"Here and There" Vicky Barranguet and Isabel Turban

May 22 – June 25, 2018

Artemisa Gallery is pleased to present Here and There, a duo show of acrylic and mixed media paintings by Uruguayan artists, Vicky Barranguet and Isabel Turban.

For this newsletter, both Vicky Barranguet and Isabel Turban answered two questions about their inspirations and Latin American influences in their work. Their responses provide insight about their work, finding the seeds from which their artistic expression grows. 


What inspires you? What drives you to paint?


Vicky Barranguet:

Life, music, kids, food, friends, emotions, events!  Everyday events, in the world in general, and those around me. Painting is an expression of the moment that I am living, with a sum of emotions from life experiences.I started painting when I got married, to a musician, so music has inspired me since the beginning.  Music, rhythm, and harmony shows in my compositions on the canvas.


Isabel Turban:

My abstract paintings are inspired by nostalgia and transformation. In my work, I try to revisit places that may no longer be there, always returning to them with novelty. Through layers of gestural images, strokes, and traces of charcoal and ink, the paintings I create represent my own idyllic albeit inexistent space. At the end, the physical places often diffuse and become rather unimportant as they are simply an inspiration, a spontaneous dialogue where each accident moves the painting forward. 

My work’s narrative may lead to multiple interpretations. The wide view is an open invitation to get closer and get lost in the details, to find the power and beauty of small things. My urban representations attempt to highlight the aspects of creation and destruction that occur when we modify our environment within the natural context that surrounds us. I try to cross those boundaries, to show both sides of that equation. 


Do you feel art is local (culture, local people, places, etc.) or is it a global expression? Does your Latin American origin have an impact on your work?


Vicky Barranguet:


I see art as a global language that transcends frontiers and all differences among people and cultures.  It affects different people in different ways, it talks directly to the soul. It touches your heart or not.I am Latin American, and it would be impossible that my culture wouldn't affect my work.  In the same way as living in New York for half of my life, shows in my art.  For me art is an expression of who you are, affected by your circumstances, believes, culture, how and where you live, but it reaches out with no boundaries, so it has a global reach.


Isabel Turban:
 

I paint from past experiences of travel and living abroad. I also get inspiration from my present concerns, pleasures, and activism. Having grown up in Uruguay and Argentina, the concept of immigration is always present in my work as the result of my personal experience. However, I invite the viewer to have their own perspective, to embark on their own journey and to relate to my work in a new, personal manner. As much as my art has its own identity, my hope is that its language is so vast and generous that it can involve everyone.

 

This duo show will be on view until June 25th, 2018.